EWA Reading Room Opening

Join us for the opening of the EWA (East African Women’s Archives) Reading Room on Thursday, 8 October 2026, 18:00–21:00 at Spazio Fonte, Milano. The evening will begin with an opening welcome by SITAAD (Leyla Degan and Naima Hassan) followed by a listening session.

Complimentary drinks and light snacks served.

Open to all

EWA Reading Room

8-13 October 2026

Spazio Fonte

Via dei Fontanili, 13

Milan, Italy

Acknowledgments

Curated by SITAAD (Leyla Degan and Naima Hassan) with support from EWA Reading Room Assistants (Yasmin Rosciglione and Noa Ceretta).

EWA Reading Room is presented with funding support from University of Oxford Humanities Division’s Research Support Fund, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation. SITAAD is a project contributor to the AHRC-funded project Reassessing (Hi)stories of Early Italian Colonialism: Afterlives of Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti's Photographic Archive, led by the University of Oxford in cooperation with the University of Pavia.

Further information

sitaad.info/ewa-reading-room